Who’s looting now?
Posted By Russ Emerson on October 17, 2003 at 2:25 pm
There’s much afoot in blogdom (from much bigger dogs than Yours Truly) about the Democrat-led Senate plan to extract repayment from Iraqis for the help we are giving them.
The Senate — courtesy of most of the Democrats and a handful of defecting Republicans — insists on repayment.
The President does not.
Excuse me, but I thought the President was the one who wanted to invade Iraq to seize the output from the oil fields? That’s all we seemed to hear from the Left – “no blood for oil,” et cetera, ad nauseum.
It seems to me that the Democrats are throwing away a talking point – a false one, but a rhetorically useful one.
Update: A Tony Snow interview of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Fox News (sorry, no linkage at this time) leads me to conclude that this provision will die in the House/Senate conference committee. Lefties, you may resume your chanting.
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